Thanks to the OP's post - I wonder now what it would be like to just keep the phone. I'd probably buy a lot less crap I don't need if I had my old devices sitting around in a usable ready state.
My keeping my devices has a lot to do with economics, although a big part of it is also my desire to keep using this stuff.
That's not to say that if I were able to afford a new device any time I wanted one I'd be buying them left and right. My personal aesthetic always comes in to play.
As to handling, as I have mentioned before, it comes down to a learned response. My hands and body just naturally move to cradle the device and protect it because I've learned the hard way what happens when I don't. I've owned a smart phone since 2009 and my fair share of them have fallen several feet and been kicked down sidewalks on their face by mistake. I've only shattered one screen though. I chalk that up to allergies and Bendadryl causing me to lose focus.
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Or you could just stream your stuff from your 6S+?
Let's play that out…
I'm streaming at work and my wife calls. OK. Phone's in my pocket (because I have to get up and walk up to the front of the building frequently). So, dig it out of my cargo pants (careful of the hammer loop), hopefully I don't end up pressing the decline button in the process. If I do, have to take headphones out (because I prefer putting the phone to my ear) then call my wife (or whomever called) back. Explain to annoyed wife why I disconnected her call. Somewhere in here I probably have to stop the music.
If I do manage to get the phone out and answer it I have to pull the headphones out, answer call, then plug phones back in and figure out where I was with the music.
Versus what I do when listening on a separate device (which actually just happened because my wife called while I was writing this post). Call comes in, primary phone is on my desk. I can see call come in. Press pause on headphone controls and take ear pods out of ears. Lay them on desk. Answer call with primary phone. Talk, hangup, put ear pods back in ear and press play. Entire time my iPhone 5 never leaves my pocket.
If I am streaming on my 5 and someone calls my primary phone whom I don't wish to speak to my music is not interrupted and I can just lean over and press the decline button.
This is more convenient for me.
